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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 15, 2000

LOT 359

M.K., Germany, circa 1620.Very fine and rare fire-gilded brass mounted rock crystal hour-striking clock watch.

CHF 32,000 - 38,000

USD 18,000 - 21,000

C. Three-body, octagonal, the sides divided into eight flat panels, the back carved with eight panels with a faceted center. Gilded lid pierced and engraved with foliage. Pierced and chased pendant and turned bottom finial.D. Silver with Roman numerals. Blued-steel single hand. M. Hinged, fire-gilded full-plate brass with turned baluster pillars, fusee with gut-line, four-wheel train, verge escapement, plain steel two-arm balance without balance spring, irregular foliate pierced brass cock secured by a screw with matching click for the ratchet wheel set-up. Striking train with engraved gilt brass fixed barrel with going arbor, silver count wheel on the back plate, hour striking on a bell housed beneath the dial.Signed ·M·K· on the back plate.Dim. 80x37 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 4

Fair
Movement: 4*

Fair

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 4 - 29 - 04

Notes

A watch signed M.K. from the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.According to Jürgen Abeler, 'Meister der Uhrmacher Kunst', at least eight watchmakers with the initials M.K. worked in Germany around the turn of the 16th and the 17th century: M.K.,circa 1577 MK, circa 1580 Michael Köllinger Michael Klenck (Klinck) Melchior Kleinhemmel Matthias Kessborer Max Krumphuber Michael Kratz